My Extraordinary Easter Dinner With A Muslim Family From One Of The Poorest Cities In Egypt

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http://www.businessinsider.com/easter-dinner-in-dar-el-salam-2013-4

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From what I could tell their enterprise includes drugs and theft, but whatever it is offers them a neighborhood wide-respect. They took me to a place I couldn't have imagined and perhaps no one from the outside could have gone without a personal escort from them, definitely not an American with two big noisy cameras.

Back through the dusty, narrow alleys, past broken-down billiard tables shoved into mud brick rooms, haphazard grocery stores, and untold apartments, we came to a dead end.

A massive bed of gravel and rock led to a sheer cliff wall and the skeletal remains of apartments destroyed by the last rock slide.

The families whose homes they took me into were unlike anything I'd ever seen, and far hiding the situation they were in, the residents let me stomp into their home because they wanted to let the world know how they lived. They'd appreciate a bit of help from the new government, just picking up the trash would be a nice start, they said.


They did not have much, but they were all smiles and offering to share.



Washroom off the kitchen


stairs


Easter dinner, with French fries and Ketchup for the first American they've met

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1. Thank you for posting this. Robert Johnson is doing amazing reporting.

He has covered some incredible topics and is shedding light on many of the uglier truths. I am glad you introduced him to us, but it is beyond sad to see the suffering he is witnessing and writing about. I suggest everyone look at this and the other articles he has written.

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2. k/r ....... Very cool.